The Healthy Garden Podcast, with Randy Ritchie. Where soil is important and growing a healthier world is job #1! As an industry insider, Randy takes us on a journey across the landscape of gardening. The Healthy Garden Podcast topics range from the truth about organics, to how to make compost tea, how GMO’s get into your soil, how to fix your clay soil, organic rose care, growing healthy nutrient dense food, and why he hasn’t sprayed a pesticide or an herbicide in over 25 years. Health is Wealth! It’s time to take our Gardens back from the Big Chemical companies that control the world of gardening. The Healthy Garden Podcast will help you take your sacred spaces back with history, insight, wit, humor and great music.
Episodes
Nov 17, 2020
Nov 17, 2020
28 min
What is the best thing that you can do in your garden this fall to promote a healthy spring garden? Do you know what a microbial inoculant is and what they do in your garden? Where can you get the best seeds for a great cover crop?
Oct 28, 2020
Oct 28, 2020
30 min
What were some of the different types of fun that people had throughout history? When did gardening become a fun leisure activity? What can you do to put FUN back into your gardening?
Oct 8, 2020
Oct 8, 2020
34 min
Who was Rudolf Steiner? What do shorter days and longer nights mean for your garden? Do you know what to do for your fruit trees this fall?
Aug 27, 2020
Aug 27, 2020
33 min
What is the threshing of a harvest? During what period did villagers start the gardening protocol called "Scaring the Birds"? Do you know what gardeners and farmers call the first frost under 28 degrees?
Aug 17, 2020
Aug 17, 2020
38 min
What are the 6 best things you can plant in your garden to boost your immune system? Do you know what natural remedies they used successfully in the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic?
Jul 21, 2020
Jul 21, 2020
33 min
How do plants get fed in the rain forest? What are the top 3 reasons you should be using Compost Tea in your true organic garden? How often should you use Compost Tea in your garden? Why Compost Tea?
Jul 7, 2020
Jul 7, 2020
32 min
What do you feed your plants? What does the history of fertilizer tell us about today's best methods? What microbial diversity is helping to feed our food?
Jun 29, 2020
Jun 29, 2020
31 min
What does William Shakespeare have to do with your tomatoes? Are nightshades really deadly? What are Alkaloids and Glycoalkaloids and how do they affect your garden?
Jun 22, 2020
Jun 22, 2020
33 min
Why isn't there any good top soil to buy at nurseries and soil yards? Do you know the 12 steps to raised bed gardening?
Jun 18, 2020
Jun 18, 2020
31 min
Where did raised bed gardening come from? Why don't we ever use "Top Soil" in our raised bed mixes? What's the most important thing to any raised bed garden?